Haroun tazieff biography sample

Franco-Belgian volcanologist

Haroun Tazieff (11 May 1914 – 2 February 1998) was a Franco-Belgian volcanologist and geologist.

He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes.^[1] He was also a government adviser and French cabinet minister. He also served in the Belgian resistance during World War II.

Early life

His parents met and married in 1906 while they were both students in Brussels.

Tazieff died at home in Paris on 2 February, aged Born in Warsaw of a Russian father who perished in the early days of the First World War.

Tazieff died at home in Paris on 2 February, aged Born in Warsaw of a Russian father who perished in the early days of the First World War.

Haroun Tazieff, vulcanologist: born Warsaw 11 May ; Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Brussels ; Head of Research.

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Haroun Tazieff (Warsaw, – Paris, 2 February ) was a Tatar, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist.

Haroun Tazieff (Warsaw, – Paris, 2 February ) was a Russian, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist.

They later returned to Warsaw, where their first son, Salvator, died at two months and where Haroun was born. His father, Sabir, was a Muslim medical doctor, of Tatar descent and his mother, Zenita Iliyasovna Klupta, was a Polish Jewish chemist and doctor of natural science and holder of a bachelor's degree in political science.

His father was conscripted into the Russian Army and died during the First World War, a fact that did not reach the family until 1919. In 1917 Haroun emigrated to Br